From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
"Carlos Llamas" <cmllamas@google.com>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFE: Make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:47:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025081642-viewpoint-exemption-006f@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC3UBQJQJ2SN.3B2AJHOP3933Z@cknow.org>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Programs like Waydroid allows people to run Android in a Linux container
> but it needs ANDROID_BINDER_IPC to do that.
> It would be really helpful if ANDROID_BINDER_IPC could be dynamically
> loaded when someone wants to use Waydroid (and unload when no longer
> needed). But currently ANDROID_BINDER_IPC is a 'bool' so either you have
> it at all times or you will never have it.
>
> So hereby the request to make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate so people that
> want to use it can load it when needed.
>
> Debian has a patch to make it tristate since 2018, but it would be so
> much more useful to have it tristate upstream.
Please submit a patch to do so!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-16 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-16 12:11 Diederik de Haas
2025-08-16 12:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2025-08-16 12:52 ` Diederik de Haas
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2025-08-16 17:26 ` Diederik de Haas
2025-08-16 17:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-08-16 18:04 ` Diederik de Haas
2025-08-16 17:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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